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Originally Posted by 4ever*ayu
^thx for the heads-up Sunshine!
this year is EXILE's year..absolute win over other artist,  ! congrats them..
and ayu still the AVEX Most Profitable Queen-bee of the year!! |
I wouldn't really say that since this measures who had the highest sales, not who had the highest profits. (the two are actually different^_^) I would say that Namie was Avex's most profitable female this year (and probably easily so).
She sold more total units than Ayu and just barely is behind her in total sales with only 3 releases (Play Tour DVD, Best Fiction, 60s70s80s) compared to Ayumi's 7 releases (Guilty, A Complete, 2 remix albums, Mirrorcle World, 2 concert dvds). All of those things required promotional expenses from Avex and really the only one of the things on Namie's list that much promo expenditure would need to be done is Best Fiction since 60s70s80s bill was pretty much footed by Vidal Sassoon. So yeah, actually I would say that Namie was quite easily the best money maker for Avex this year when you take those factors into account.
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Originally Posted by ayu-fan
wonder if she could maintain her position next year.
in the past 2 years ayu's income mostly came from best albums, while in the next year she wouldn't have any more best thingy XD
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Watch Avex come up with A Ultimate or something.
